J St and AIPAC teamed up on Iran sanctions

MJ Rosenberg called them "Dumb Sanctions." But J Street pushed them way over the top. Ron Kampeas at JTA:

"J Street has a dependable cadre of 40-50 members of the U.S. House of Representatives ready to heed its voting recommendations. Congressional insiders say J Street’s green light in December for Iran sanctions nudged the bill from the super majority that traditional lobbying by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee usually turns out to officially "overwhelming": 412-12. That sent the Obama administration a clear message to hurry it on up, the insiders say."

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  1. Dan Kelly says:

    From the Rosenberg piece:

    “It is as if the sponsors of these bills (which were drafted before the stolen Iranian election) are unaware that millions of Iranians have taken to the street to fight against the Khameini regime. “

    Millions of Iranians protested Iranian leadership? Oh really? How about millions of people supported Iranian leadership, while a small group of people, many funded by the West, protested.

  2. potsherd says:

    Show me the member of Congress who’d vote for J Street against AIPAC.

  3. Rehmat says:

    The IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano released his first report on Iran’s nuclear program on Thursday – which refuted Israeli lies about Iran’s nuclear program to be meant for the military purpose.

    However, Israel and its ZOG poodles in the West are bracing themselves for attcking Islamic Iran this Summer. This week, Hizb’Allah leader, Sheikh Nasrallah, has warned the Zionazi regime of “four-pronged” military response by Iran, Syria, Hamas and Hizb’Allah if Islamic Iran is attacked. Sheikh Nasrallah also mentioned that Hizb’Allah militia are ready to turn Israel’s Dahiya strategy (Israel’s doctrine of carpet-bombing of civilian populated areas as they did in 2006 on Beirut’s Dahiya suburb in order to put terror among Israel’s Arab neighbors) on the Zionist entity itself.

    link to rehmat1.wordpress.com

  4. pabelmont says:

    The greatest puzzle about J-Street is to decide whether its very-controlling leadership means to create a different politics or, rather, merely another brand of AIPAC, another flavor of the same toothpaste. See my essay: How J-Street fails to help US, Israel, or US Jews longing for Peace

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